Henry baxter and august frideeich anton



(N0 ModeL) v H. BAXTER & A. P. .ANTON.

WOOD MOLDING MACHINE. No. 315,222. Patented Apr. '7, 1885.

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WOOD-MOLD SPECIFICATION forming part of Lette Application filed Jul To(ZZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, HENRY BAXTER and AUGUST F. ANTON, both of Memphis,in the county of Shelby and State of Tennessee, have invented certainnew and useful Improve ments in WVood-Molding Machines, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention consists of contrivances of edge-trimmers, molding-bits,and guides in a Wood-molding machine, whereby the moldings can bedressedout of one strip at once, and also so that two strips can be dressed andfour moldings made at the same time, thus greatly increasing thecapacity of the machine, as hereinafter fully described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a moldingmachine contrived in accordance withour invention with some parts in horizontal section. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal sectional elevation, and Figs. 3 and 4 are details.

We make the cutters a of the top cutterhead,b,with double and reversedbits c,adapted to dress two moldings, d, out of one strip, 6, of alittle more than double the width that is used for one molding, as thesemoldings are commonly made, making the middle part, c, of said bit ofsuitable radial dimensions to cut entirely through the strip andseparate the two moldings from each other, and we arrange verticaledge-trimming cutter-heads f and g for both sides of the strip to dressboth edges of the molding d, and provide center guides, t, to run in thespace made between the moldings for separating them, to guide theinneredges, and hold the molding against the edge-trimmers, together with therequisite edge guides j for controlling the dressed edges h, theedge-guides j being adjustable as required for moldings of differentwidths. WVe employ two center guides, i, one being close to the topplaner-head and between it and the edge-trimmers, and the other beinglocated over the lower cutterhead, Z, employed for dressing the moldingstrips on the bottom. These guides t are supported on cross-bars m byadjusting-screwsn,

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the cross-bars being mounted on standards 0 at each side of the machine.The guides j are fitted in groovesp of the planer-bed suitably for beingshifted as desired for being set for moldings of different widths,andwill have any approved contrivance of binding-screws q or other meansfor securing them. contrivance of feed-rol1ers s and edge-guide 15 willbe employed as in other molding-machines, and thus it will be seen thatwe double the capacity of the machine for work with but very slightmodification of the machine, and but little expense; and these rollersand guide we double again, and thus make a machine of quadruple thecapacity of the ordinary machine by making the cutters a with two doubleand reversed bits,c, arranging two intermediate edge trimmers, 9, twosets of center guides, z, and edge-guides j, and also arranging anotheredge-guide, t, under the feed-rollers s, so that two strips, e, may beat one and the same time converted into two moldings,d,each. For thispurpose,instead-of using the ordinary edge-trimmers f in theintermediate position,we prefer to employ others of smaller dimensionsto occupy less space, and instead of placing them side by side we 10-cate one in advance of the other, shifting the ordinary and largercutter-heads f to the outer edges of the strip, where there is more roomfor them. The outer cutter-heads, f, are to be power to the intermediateheads, g,which we provide for our purpose, we introduce adriving-pulley, t, and a belt, and for the purpose of driving bothcutter-heads by the one belt we suitably locate an idler to guide thebelt so as to hug the pulley w of the head 9 nearest to the driver t,more effectually than it could if running direct from the driver aroundsaid pulley. \Ve mount the spindles x of cutter heads 9 in blocks y,which will in practice be attached to the machine in any approved wayfor being detached when the machine is to be used for surface-planingonly.

Having thus described our invention, 'what we claim as new, and desireto secure by Let ters Patent, is-

1. The molding-cutters a of the top cutterhead, b,having two double andreversed mold- The same geared as in the ordinary machine, which itisnot necessary to show; but for applying the ICO

